Rösler Oberflächentechnik

HANA lets us produce live data much more quickly, and display it more effectively in analytical tools, than was previously the case. The side-by-side scenario also allows us to learn more about HANA as a database and accumulate know-how. In the long term, it will help us to operate the ERP suite on HANA and make better use of the benefits of this new database technology.

Rösler Oberflächentechnik GmbH is a mechanical engineering company specializing in sophisticated surface treatment systems using mass finishing and blasting technology. Its international network of test centers develops solutions designed to provide a perfect match for customers’ needs.
Apart from surface treatments, the company provides a comprehensive range of accessories and processing materials such as abrasive wheels and compounds. It has sites at Bad Staffelstein and Untermerzbach in Germany, and fifteen subsidiaries and sixty distributors around the world.

Rösler Oberflächentechnik GmbH, Bad Staffelstein, Germany

About the Project

In the past, Rösler used its own audit programming to produce standard reports from SAP ERP or Excel spreadsheets, using complicated data extraction, evaluation, reporting and display processes. Creating a central, standardized and ad-hoc reporting platform with automated replication marked an exciting first step towards HANA.

The company implemented the new SAP solution very quickly with the help of the itelligence team, generating the first report in the summer of 2014. Much of this speed was down to the mentoring strategy followed by itelligence, which provided user training at an early stage to ensure that staff were fully familiarized with the new solution and could use it on their own. itelligence HANA expert Lorenz Beckmann says: “Rösler’s use of SAP HANA shows how an innovative and effective IT team from a medium-sized company can achieve rapid and significant benefits for all departments of a business, and gain strategic positioning on the road to HANA.”

Rösler first implemented HANA-based reporting in its sales department. Here, staff now have self-service access to the data they need to make fast, fact-based decisions, and flexible, user-friendly reporting and analysis processes enabling them to generate their own reports on orders received and sales invoiced.

Only the data they need for reporting is replicated from the ERP system and processed in HANA Studio for self-service display. This means that even less technology-minded staff can analyze and graph data from a single source to obtain quick, simple answers to business questions without the IT department’s help.

Rösler’s powerful HANA database enables it to make fast, well founded decisions. Analysis results can be viewed interactively in seconds, reducing the company’s costs and workload and increasing its productivity, while near-real-time synchronization ensures that data is always current.

Torben Niemtschke

Project Manager and Supply Chain Execution Specialist, itelligence AG

"The SAP HANA project highlights many of the benefits of SAP, and underlines the close cooperation between Rösler and itelligence. Rösler is an innovative client and partner that thinks and acts strategically, and we’re delighted to be supporting its transition towards SAP Industry 4.0 with further innovation."

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